On 31-Aug-02, jose wrote:
> How can I build a tool to design cool text-based logos
> ?
> I've used GIMP and it does the job but wouldn't rebol
> excel at this, even more than GIMP ?
> What font types are available to load and manipulate ?
The default fonts, 'font-fixed, 'font-serif and 'font-sans-serif are
just words referencing a string containing the font name and you can
change them to any suitable font you like that's on your system
(AFAIK). To use another font in a style, just give the style's
font/name the title of the font you want to use. ie...
view layout [t: text "hello" font [name: "Times"]]
Look at a style's font object to see what you can change with regard
to fonts. For the above we get...
>> probe t/font
make object! [
name: "Times"
style: none
size: 12
color: 0.0.0
offset: 2x2
space: 0x0
align: 'left
valign: 'top
shadow: none
colors: [0.0.0 255.180.55]
]
The problem though is REBOL doesn't come with a font-requester, so
making a cross-platform app that gives access to all of a user's
fonts would be tricky...
So, a question for the others here testing the beta View: Does it
come with a font-requester? If not, let's make a cross-platform one.
Afterall, it seems all we need is a block of strings containing the
names of all the fonts on a user's system. If we've got that, we can
make a font-requester, right? So, let's say at startup View looks
for a file called %font-names, which contains such a block. If it
doesn't find it, it runs an os-specific script to grab the names of
the fonts on the system and saves them as a block to %font-names.
So, next time the font-names would be there and you wouldn't have to
go through the permission-to-access-directory requests. Couple that
with an "update-fonts" button on the font-requester (which could be
cross-platform, it using the os-specific name-grabing script for the
updating), and you should have an adequate means of accessing fonts.
Anyone see any problems with this? For instance, is there any OS
where the font-names couldn't be accessed with a REBOL script?
Just a thought, and not worth pursuing if a font-requester will be in
the next View...
> Can anybody point to some examples ?
> Thanks
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Carl Read
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